A collection of 661 posts
It is the responsibility of Western activists to know who and what they support, and to separate themselves—openly and decisively—from programs and regimes that are predicated on violence and repression.
The restoration of a statue of Felix Dzerzhinsky in Moscow illuminates the gulf that now divides Russian society.
Those who demand an end to all suffering at any cost exhibit a utopian foolishness.
Moral relativism, and its equally dubious corollary of moral equivalence, too often mars contemporary Realists’ conceptions of political realities.
The Hamas atrocities of October 7th have refocussed attention on the place of a consequential voting bloc in Western democracies.
Hamas’s progressive apologists seek self-justification in the moral incoherence of relativistic absolutism.
How sexist violence killed the Chinese Dream.
How two bungling American assassins travelled over 7,000 miles to settle a grudge, and then turned their trial into a nine-year circus.
An interview with author and intellectual Paul Berman about Hamas’s ideology and Western blindness.
Jeff Sharlet’s new book is a stark and dispiriting dispatch from Trump country.
The inflammatory Al-Ahli hospital hoax shows that much of the Western media remains compulsively addicted to dangerous and self-defeating war journalism.
A new book examines Israel’s mounting campaign to check Iran.
Samuel Moyn’s analysis of what ails liberal societies is fatally compromised by his own socialist commitments.
If he is to reunite Poland, Donald Tusk will have to balance his strong support for the EU with citizens’ legitimate concerns about the erosion of national sovereignty.
It is rarely the case that all of the blame for a conflict belongs on one side. But that does not mean blame should be equally divided.